Character Study on Shayla

Meet Shayla. I was working last year on a character for a book

and they didn't use her, but I keep her around for instant inspiration.

I had fun creating her. I have a story in mind as well.

Finding the Magic

A faerie holds a early morning sun beam in her hand and marvels at its perfection.

The wonder of it is it's elusiveness for it can not be captured only adored.

This is true of any real and precious treasure, as any wise faerie knows.

I did this on the computer and I have posted the method on my demo page; address to follow.

http://daylespaintingdemo.blogspot.com/

Inner Child

Hello everybody!
Have I missed WaWe. Hope everyone is having an awesome new year.
This is an illustration I just finished for one of Jennifer Poulter's poster poems. The inner me was always daydreaming and trying to work out the world in my mind.

Goauche and coloring pencil.

Celebrating Our Differences

This image (double click on image to see it larger) is watercolor on Yupo paper, a very slick watercolor paper that I've just started experimenting with. It's pretty forgiving & you can push the pigment & washes around and pull them back up, but it's also a little frustrating because the washes & pigments come up so easily. It took an hour to work just the faces--they went through a lot of changes, some not so cute!

My childhood was filled with Golden and Peterpan records on a portable record player. I could never find the little yellow inserts that went into the 45's so they wobbled while they played. I loved going to Toyland!!! All I had to do was say the magic words. Haluna, Haluna, fe fi fo to the land of toys I wish to go. And then the man on the record would ask, " Are you there yet???" he he he he! Pixie sticks and other treats, the circus and clowns and fairies! Hours of jacks with my sister Coy and paddle ball contest! Yes and hours of Star Trek, Lost in Space, Ultra Man, Petticoat Junction, The Addams Family, The Monsters, I Love Lucy, Hazel, Top Cat, Bugs Bunny

Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse, and the list goes on.

Gee those were the days!

Have a good one!

Magic Class

As the world grows smaller faeries come in all colours and when faeries are very new they all go to school. Here they are taking a magic class tied together with ribbon so as they do not get lost.

This is for WAWE diversity.

colored pencil drawing progression

Just wanted to show where I am at this point on the colored pencil drawing, which I'm calling Mardi Gras Dog. I'm slowly building up the colored pencil, and I'm working with a limited palette. The cross over area where her right hand is under her left hand is giving me trouble. I love drawing hands, but that area looks like her right hand is bending akwardly (rather than it being two different hands). I'm fairly pleased with the overall result, but it's not finished yet and I don't want to rush it. I'll post again after getting further into the drawing.

New Medium-Paper Angel

This is something I did on a free software program...computer art is definitely not a medium I am comfortable with. It took an unbelievable amount of time to do this but I sort of like it. Don't know if I will be doing it very much but you never know.

The Year of the Tiger

Happy new year. The year of the tiger is about to begin and he is flying in arriving by balloon. This is also a change of medium for me this was done in the computer.

A New Medium

This is from a pencil sketch that I want to submit to SCBWI for a spot illustration...Linda's post gave me the idea of putting some colored pencil to it.